A different thing are conversation back and forths: each comment is in a new branch of the comment tree.
WTH are you trying to say?
At a wild guess, that you may upvote a comment that you support – but there’s a second part that you wouldn’t agree with. Or that people should split up their comments so that people can upvote/downvote individual parts?
Thank you. Take your 0.667 of an upvote.
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I think OP is referring to comment where multiple talking points are made, but you can’t selectively apply your upvote/downvote to specific parts of the comment. You either upvote it all, or downvote it all.
So if I start talking about how pineapple is ok on a pizza, a downvote for this take also means you downvote how I’m trying to clarify OP’s message.
Down with pineapple, 0.5 upvote.
Yes. This is what I mean.
I hope I made it clearer by editing the post. Let me know if it’s still not clear :)
We generally take for granted “1 comment per user per comment level”
We do?
You may be an exception, posting each part of what you wish to say in a different comment. But what I see the vast majority of the time is one comment per user per comment level.
Just in case, I do not mean that, in a post, users don’t reply to different comments of the same level more than once. Rather, if you’re looking at comments like a tree, in each level of a single branch, you’re most likely to see a single comment by a user rather than many comments.
I know there’s a difference between describing a behavior and describing a thought, but to the extent that our expectations are calibrated by other thoughts and observations, there’s a case for my argument.
I have never seen someone advocating for “Split each part of your argument into a different comment!” Neither have I seen it in practice.
If you find yourself typing a long comment that might have contradictions or presents several options, you should consider shortening it so that it only contains the most important point. Save the rest for follow up conversations. This makes a better conversation for several reasons besides voting.
